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Nov '07: Bhutto Names Her Suspected Assasins, Says Bin Laden is Dead [VIDEO]

Posted by Adam Howard, AlterNet at 5:19 AM on December 29, 2007.


Bhutto said in regards to working with Musharraf, "I'm not going to be the icing on the cake if it's a poisoned cake."
David Frost interview with Bhutto

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In early November, Sir David Frost spoke to former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto about her controversial return to Pakistan, who she thought was behind the deadly bombing of her convoy in Karachi that October, and whether she and Musharraf could forge a power-sharing agreement. Watch the video to your right for more.

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Adam Howard is the editor of PEEK.


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Murder of Bin Laden?
Posted by: crystaljim on Dec 29, 2007 6:30 AM   
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How could David Frost let the comment by Bhutto that Omar Sheik (sp?) murdered Osama Bin Laden go by with out any follow up? It would seem to me that Benazir Bhutto probably has good enough intel to know what she is talking about. And if she knows and speaks of it in such an off hand manner, can American Intel NOT know about it? Is there ANY journalist out there that is not corrupt and complicit in the huge lie of the "War on Terror" perpetrated by Cheney/Bush/and the MSM? Is there any way to wake up the couch potatoes and get them away from their celebrity watching and insane (un)reality shows, and yes their Super Sports, and get them to realize how far into the toilet this country really is? How bad does it really have to get? I grieve for my country and the world.

We absolutely MUST impeach Cheney. The testimony during Libby's trial proved that Cheney is the person responsible for the disclosure of Valery Plame-Wilson as a covert CIA agent, which is a felony called treason, punishable all the way up to death!

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» RE: Murder of Bin Laden? Posted by: manseb
» RE: Murder of Bin Laden? Posted by: anna132
» Slip of the tongue? Probably not. Posted by: truthteller
American for truth and justice
Posted by: Michael_D on Dec 29, 2007 7:00 AM   
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I totally agree that it is time to wake others up. We must boycott all mainstream media and their companies as much as possible. Tell your family what the government has done. Let them know how our elections are rigged. That must change. Americans no longer need to kill anyone outside this country. We must stand up now. WAKE UP. They actually think they can run Americans forever with the TV and fearmongering. I feel sorry for who puts themselves in line with all this corruption and lies on TV. In effect, they become non-people in my opinion. The time for the talk to stop has arrived. No matter who did 9/11 we are going bankrupt and cannot afford to keep our heads in the sand any longer. Down with monopolistic, big media. Down with big government. Down with open borders. Down with NEOCONS. Down with anyone who is not for America as Americans see fit. Up with our people's revolution for truth and justice and a better country.

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Slip of the tongue...
Posted by: Paladin on Dec 29, 2007 8:10 AM   
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I, too, assumed that Ms. Bhutto simply made a slip of the tongue when she said that Osama Bin Laden had been killed. I kept waiting for David Frost to follow-up on it, but perhaps he was thinking the same thing.

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Doesn't make sense
Posted by: Artaraxl on Dec 29, 2007 8:12 AM   
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This has been debated considerably on DailyKos:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/12/27/215037/33

Since Sheikh has been in prison since 2002, when was this "murder" supposed to have occurred and why?

It seems reasonable to infer that she misspoke either intending:
[Omar Sheikh] murdered Daniel Pearl
or
[Omar Sheikh] murdered for/on behalf of OBL

For this to be taken seriously, an off-hand comment in an interview would need supporting evidence of some kind. That's lacking.

A murder requires motive and opportunity. Politicians misspeak all the time.

-Axl

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More "evidence" for the 911 Truthiness Movement
Posted by: thoughtcriminal on Dec 29, 2007 12:04 PM   
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Obviously it was a slip of the tounge about Omar Sheikh and UBL. However, this is exactly the kind of 'evidence' that the 911truthiness movement used to base their claims on - for example, some reporter near the Pentagon on 9/11 said "the plane was like a missile", and lo and behold, 911truthiness picked it up and screamed "a missile was fired at the Pentagon!"

It does seem that the Bush-Rice plan was to install Bhutto as a kind of public figurehead for a regime that would actually be controlled by Musharrif and his cronies. It also seems that Bhutto rejected this notion, and indeed had been moving closer to Sharif - both of whom were calling for the removal of Musharrif from power.

Many elements of Musharrif's regime would not be pleased about that - so all the accusations about Pakistan government involvement in the assassination seem quite credible.

The removal of security after the rally seems to be a major point here. She holds a political rally, gets in a convoy to drive away, and then the convoy is halted by a crowd of people who surrounded her car. That would never, ever, ever be allowed to happen in the U.S., Britain, China, Russia, etc. Never. Look at the image taken of Bhutto seconds before her death.

How was that ever allowed to happen?

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Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh (b. December 23, 1973)
Posted by: LeftWright on Dec 29, 2007 12:33 PM   
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is often referred to simply as Omar Sheikh or Saeed Sheikh was recruited by Britain's MI6 and also worked for Pakistan's ISI intelligence services.

Indian intelligence and our own FBI confirmed that Saeed Sheikh sent $100,000 by wire transfer to Mohammed Atta just before 9/11/01 on the orders of Lt. Gen. Mahmoud Ahmed, the head of the ISI, who then retired when this information became public.

He surrendered to the ISI in February of 2002 and was charged with the murder of Daniel Pearl. While he was sentenced to death for the murder, he seems to have been granted an extended reprieve due to his ISI connections and the fact that Kahlid Sheikh Mohammed now claims to have killed Pearl.

Wikipedia actually has a reasonably good page on Saeed Sheikh:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmed_Omar_Saeed_Sheikh

At this point it is worth noting that the Pakistani official in charge of Bhutto's perimeter security at the time of the bombing mentioned in the Frost piece was the ISI case officer who "handled" Osama bin Laden. The bomber was able to penetrate this outer layer of security, but not Bhutto's own personal security during this incident.

So much for a few of the known facts.

Now, keeping in mind the fact that Osama bin Laden initially denied perpetrating the 9/11 attacks it is a reasonable reading of Benazir Bhutto's statement that Saeed Sheikh assassinated bin Laden. This action would have been on the orders of the ISI and the CIA to silence the patsy-in-chief for the 9/11 operation and helps explain why every video of bin Laden since early 2002 has questionable validity. This would also explain the reports of a bin Laden funeral around the same time.

This only further reinforces the need for a full, complete and open investigation into the events of 9/11/01.

The truth shall set us free. Love is the only way forward.

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Osama is dead...
Posted by: MyLeftFoot on Dec 30, 2007 5:14 AM   
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sombody call the CIA and tell them to stop the farce.

http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/osama_dead.html

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would the real Osama please stand up?
Posted by: MyLeftFoot on Dec 30, 2007 5:17 AM   
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http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/osamatape.html

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Uh- accessibility, please?
Posted by: audiodef on Dec 30, 2007 9:57 AM   
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Captions or transcripts. I'm through being nice. Provide one or the other. You have plenty of readers with varying levels of hearing impairments. Get. With. The. Program.

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Thought criminal not good at thinking
Posted by: brianct on Dec 30, 2007 5:27 PM   
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No, Bhutto's remark is not an 'obvious' slip.It may be, but you cant be sure, and now shes dead, so we cant seek her clarification. She just before mentions OBLs son, and made no other obvious slips.
Your knowledge of 911 and 911 truth is pretty woeful. The pentagon missile theory is based not on spoken claims, but on evidence, and the lack of evidence of a huge plane! The hole in the pentagon being about 10 feet across.
You will notice the FBI took away security videos that would hae identified the object and never, and so the public has never seen them.
i suggest you go read David Ray Griffins books on 9-11, for a clear analysis of evidence and claims...and a thorough debunking of people like you.

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Thougthless criminal
Posted by: brianct on Dec 30, 2007 5:31 PM   
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We willl know who did what when theres an investigation...You seem to be the one prone to wild claims and false assumptions.

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BBC Censors Mention of Bin Laden
Posted by: onevoter on Dec 30, 2007 9:43 PM   
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The BBC has now censored Bhutto's comment about Osama Bin Laden being murdered. Since this video has gone viral, it is too late for those who seek the truth. Hee is a YouTube link to the clip. The audio sounds seamless, and there is a video cut to Frost.

Watch the original, then this, and decide for yourself...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbpABK_SSws

Now why would they do that? Hmmmm?

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Fear is to chaos what ignorance is to unmanipulated truth
Posted by: Aposterioriperception on Jan 3, 2008 11:52 PM   
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It's not surprising that the regressive US regime continues to keep the lemming majority
on the edge of their ignorant uncritical thinking seats with stagnant reinforcement
of the big lie, 9/11 was their "rosebud" moment.

9/11 is their key, one which is designed to elicit fear, not confidence, few question why porn was #13 ahead of terrorism on the priority list before 9/11, it only became a priority of
distration via obfuscation when a false flag for their lie segue with blaming Clinton for 9/11, which makes sense with AWOL war criminal on vacation and Cheney handing out Iraq Oil cookies in secret meetings, why not blame any number of pilots engaged in a Cheney controlled suicide planes exercise for not breaking off from the exercise to engage a supposedly easter bunny/great pumpkin cabal that was crashing planes on 9/11, (makes as much sense as the official "lie", I mean "version")

What amazes me still is the level of disconnect
of: Bush=false security vs. Bush=vacation=he's
safe while on vacation, we're screwed because
shotgun Dick Cheney is minding the store and
playing with the lives of real soldiers as if
they were part of his personal toy collection.

Nowhere does the following statement appear; Does Bush really keep you safe?
Since he was president on 9/11 that makes him responsible for holding those responsible for
the murders accountable, since he and Gulianni
only want to be seen as heros not complicit with
the perps, it comes as no surprise that neither
want anything to do with an objective and unbiased investigation, except for the narrow whitewashed version that blames no-one except for the very people in the intel community who
gave 52 warnings that were intentionally ignored.


American Idol, idiots watch this mindless talentless train wreck on tuesday nights, same day of the week as 9/11 in 2001, gee, I wonder why it's so important to keep American idiots distracted on tuesdays?

Could it be a subliminal reinforcement of the media creeper information overload introduced to keep the lemming population saturated with useless information which prevents most from thinking, critically or clearly?

Oh, but what do I know? I only studied disinformation tactics in the military for 20 years, one need not know if the information is accurate, only that the words associated with
a lie have plausible deniability interwoven in such a way that using a certain word gives the intended audience a pavlovian response, fight or flight, the choice is yours, follow logic, anyone can follow the lunatics, that's what religion is for, to keep the stupid people breeding more stupid people who won't question what they're told, follow the hate, it leads to religion every time.

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